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The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers
Restored in 2014 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with the National Film Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Restoration funding provided by the Material World Charitable Foundation and The Film Foundation.
As one of cinema’s most sumptuous 20th-century artists, Sergei Parajanov was only able to make a handful of films before his death in 1990, leaving behind a filmography characterized by controversy under Soviet rule. A mad feast-for-the-eyes bio-poem, The Color of Pomegranates was written, directed, choreographed and costumed by Parajanov to be a living embodiment of ancient “illuminated texts,” while bringing to light the fertility and vitality of Armenian culture. In a series of ever-shifting, eye-popping tableaux, there is little dialogue and less camera movement as Parajanov traces the life of an Armenian poet, from birth to death by shower of live chickens — but the audience is carried along by the impossibly rich detail crammed into every frame, to-die-for wardrobes, and the androgynous Sofiko Chiaureli’s adept performance in six different roles. Parajanov spent five years exiled in a prison camp for the “transgression” of creating this wildly beautiful work resplendent with magic and far-ahead-of-its-time aesthetic daring.
The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers
Restored in 2014 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with the National Film Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Restoration funding provided by the Material World Charitable Foundation and The Film Foundation.
As one of cinema’s most sumptuous 20th-century artists, Sergei Parajanov was only able to make a handful of films before his death in 1990, leaving behind a filmography characterized by controversy under Soviet rule. A mad feast-for-the-eyes bio-poem, The Color of Pomegranates was written, directed, choreographed and costumed by Parajanov to be a living embodiment of ancient “illuminated texts,” while bringing to light the fertility and vitality of Armenian culture. In a series of ever-shifting, eye-popping tableaux, there is little dialogue and less camera movement as Parajanov traces the life of an Armenian poet, from birth to death by shower of live chickens — but the audience is carried along by the impossibly rich detail crammed into every frame, to-die-for wardrobes, and the androgynous Sofiko Chiaureli’s adept performance in six different roles. Parajanov spent five years exiled in a prison camp for the “transgression” of creating this wildly beautiful work resplendent with magic and far-ahead-of-its-time aesthetic daring.
Pastor Pierre Valkering kwam in 1999 naar de kerk van Onze Lieve Vrouwe van de Vrede. Het plein voor de kerk was verwaarloosd en vervallen. De pastor wilde het plein opknappen en dacht aan een fontein: bij het heiligdom, de tempel, is altijd water. In samenwerking met het stadsdeel Oud-Zuid en het Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst is het watersculptuur er gekomen.
Het grondpatroon van het kunstwerk bestaat uit elf concentrische cirkels gevat in de driehoek van drie hoge stapels oude boeken die kennis en wijsheid symboliseren. Twee watersculpturen dragen een ruwe brok marmer. De derde draagt en marmeren bol waarop de kunstenaar het reliëf van het maanlandschap heeft aangebracht. Nog zes stapels boeken op zithoogte nodigen twee aan twee uit om even te rusten. Het beeld van de stapels oude boeken ontleende Puckey aan de film "De kleur van Granaatappels" geregisseerd door de Armeen Sergei Parajanov. Het watersculptuur is ook een hommage aan deze regisseur.
Thom Puckey studeerde aan de Slate School of Fine Art en de London Royal College of Art. Sinds 1978 woont en werkt hij in Amsterdam.
(bron: www.fonteinen-amsterdam.nl)
The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers